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A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

By Ali Smith

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird Contemporary literature

A Cage Went in Search of a Bird

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A collection of brand-new short stories written by prize-winning, bestselling writers and inspired by Kafka - published to commemorate the centenary of his death Franz Kafka is widely regarded as one of the great geniuses of twentieth-century literature. What happens when some of the most original literary minds of today take an idea, a mood or a line from his work and use it to spark something new? From a future society who ask their AI servants to construct a giant tower to reach God; to a flat hunt that descends into a comically absurd bureaucratic nightmare; to a population experiencing a wave of unbearable, contagious panic attacks, these ten specially commissioned stories are by turns mind-bending, funny, unsettling and haunting. Inspired by the visionary imagination of a writer working one hundred years ago, they speak powerfully to the strangeness of being alive today. _____ Franz Kafka lived in Prague from 1883 to 1924. The authors in this book live in cities from Prague to New York and have roots in places from China to Ireland to Jamaica. They have won prizes including the Women's Prize for Fiction, the American Book Award, an Academy Award, multiple BAFTAs and the Writers Guild of America Award; and they have been shortlisted for prizes including the Booker Prize and the Pulitzer Prize.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
2024-05-30
Publication Date:
2024-05-30
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0349146411
ISBN13:
9780349146416
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
260 g
Height:
134 cm
Width:
215 cm
Thickness:
23 cm
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